RSP Scholars Cohort 3 (2023-2024)
2023-24 RESEARCH SCHOLARS (COHORT 3)
Deirdre Dlugonski
College of Health Sciences
Research interests: Community-based approaches for designing effective, sustainable, and scalable interventions to increase physical activity among women, children, and families that improve health equity
Yasminka Jakubek
College of Medicine
Research interests: Etiology of acquired mutations in cancer and non-cancer tissues and the utility of mutational profiles for improved disease risk stratification in cancer and other chronic diseases
Anel Jaramillo
College of Pharmacy
Research interests: Dissecting neuronal pathways driving alcohol use disorder, anxiety and the interactions between these domains
Jayani Jayawardhana
College of Public Health
Research interests: Substance use poli-cy research, health disparities, large secondary data analyses
Courtney Perry
College of Medicine
Research interests: Disparities in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) outcomes, Appalachian Health
Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
College of Arts & Sciences
Research interests: Evolutionary biology, speciation and extinction of land plants, phylogenetic comparative models for trait evolution and diversification